Thirty-year-old U.S. Army veteran Eric Harroun was charged Thursday with violating U.S. law byfighting with Syrian rebels to depose Bashar al-Assad.
Harroun was charged with "conspiring to use a destructive device outside the United States" after telling FBI agents that he used rocket-propelled grenades against Syria's military. Harroun entered Syria in January and ultimately joined up with Al Nusrah fighters, which the U.S. says are aligned with al-Qaida. He boasted about his war exploits on Facebook, including the downing of a Syrian government helicopter.An affidavit drafted by FBI agent Paul Higginbotham reads: "There is probable cause to believe that, in or about January 2013 to March 2013, Eric Harroun conspired to use a weapon of mass destruction, i.e. a Rocket Propelled Grenade, outside of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2332a(b)."
i don't know what goes through the heads of those ex or mercenary aside from money, maybe that's enough of an inducer to go abroad and engage with other countries, that is interfering with potential talks or cold be sited by our enemies as a US invasive aggression crating something more then might have been had they stayed out.
there should be some sore of severe reprimand who knows what could have been nullified by their gung ho unpatriotic efforts that was not acting in the best interest of the US.
Mueller noted in a 2009 Foreign Policy article that the definition for "weapon of mass destruction" in 18 U.S.C. 2332a includes "any destructive device as defined in section 921 of this title." The definition for "destructive device" reads:(A) any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas --(i) bomb,(ii) grenade,(iii) rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces,(iv) missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce,(v) mine, or(vi) device similar to any of the devices described in the preceding clauses;
people need to check themselves before the jump in the fire, let those responsible for America's business handle it, if they don't there are times when you can vote them the hell out, 2014. we saw what a scrambled mess Romney and the republicans created when they insert themselves where they are not suppose to be.
